With its bold strokes and mystic aura, Zen calligraphy has intrigued manyesterners since the 19060s, but has remained a little-understood art form.ere, master calligrapher and swordmaster Tanchu Terayama offers detailedessons in Japanese techniques of the brush, as well as an in-depthppreciation of calligraphy's most subtle elements.;Section one covers theasics (history, tools and posture) and presents a unique yoga-like warm-upo establish the proper mental attitude and release creative energies. Next,he power of the brushed line is diagnosed and practised. What makes a goodine or a bad one, an expressive effort or an unfocused one? Then comeessons in penning symbolic Japanese characters, and finally Terayama teacheseaders how to draw the elegant pictorial themes of this classic art: bamboo,lum blossoms, Mount Fuji, and the inspirational, if apocryphal, Zenatriarch Bodhidharma.